Shoe bag



April 1939. E. SEBASTIAN 2,154,536

SHOE BAG Filed Oct 5, 1935 I Arrozwzy Patented Apr. 18, 1939 v I i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHOE BAG Edward Sebastian, St. Louis, Mo., assignor to Orchard Paper 00., St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application October 5, 1935, Serial No. 43,678

2 Claims. (Cl. 229-56) This invention relates to improvements in bags Figure 2 is a similar view of the same, nearly or containers, and more particularly to such articlosed; and cles that are especially adapted for the packag- Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view of lngof shoes in pairs, and have as some of the obthe bag with a slightly modified form adjacent 5 Jects, the provision of such bags that will be exits bottom. 5 tremely cheap as compared with the boxes or Referring more particularly to the drawing, other packages heretofore employed for the purwherein I have illustrated the preferred embodipose, consume a minimum of time in packaging, ment of my invention, there is shown a bag, made will require no separate tissues or other means of paper or other similarly cheap and flexible for spacing the shoes of the pair to prevent their material suitable for the purpose, somewhat like 1 rubbing on one another while the package is the ordinary bags used by grocers, bakers and being carried or handled, which bags are norother merchants packaging their vendibles into mally collapsed so that many of them may be these containers for being carried out by the stored in a minimum of space and be kept clean vendees.

and fresh withacorresponding minimum of han- In the form shown, the entire bag is made 15 dling, and which are otherwise neat and attracof a single sheet of paper of the desired weight, tive in appearance, and satisfactory and efficient strength, and finish, and whose width is such for use wherever deemed applicable. that its enclosing or bounding walls, including A further object of my invention is to produce the front and back panels I and 2, the side walls a bag of the kind described, from a single sheet 3 connecting said panels, and the partition wall 20 of paper, so proportioned, shaped and folded are formed from said width of the blank.

that there is formed as an integral part of the The side walls are folded inwardly of the side bag, a partition extending longitudinally the full edges of the face panels, so that when the bag is length of the latter, from one panel to the oppoopened, its cross-sectional shape will be approxisite panel of the bag, to thereby divide the packet mately rectangular.

into a pair of like compartments, into each of In order to provide a partition wall or memwhich compartments a shoe may be placed, the her dividing the bag for its full length into a bag being normally sufficiently longer than the pair of like o d a y extending C shoes therein so that the top of the bag may be ments, into each of which a shoe or other article subsequently closed by giving it a twist or the or commodity may be inserted, the free longitudi- 30 like in the usual manner of closing bags. nally extending edges of the sheet are not joined Another object of my invention is to provide a together therealong, as in the normally formed bag having a partition integral therewith, of apag. u p n the contrary r v l pp for proximately the width of the side walls of the bag, a Cons derable di tan One of said overlapp so that the bag will retain its approximately recedge, as for example the outermost or exterior 35 tangular cross-sectional shape when fully opened edge 4 bting pasted Otherwise se ed 0 tsfor the insertion of the shoes of the pair into the tened her lon to t e r f the a ja n individual compartments of th ba thereby npanel 2, intermediate the side edges of said panel. abling said shoes to be thus inserted with quick- It is to be noted that if preferred, said line of 40 ness, ease and security, securement of said free edge 4 need not be cen- 40 Many other objects and advantages of the contrally 0 e bOunding Side edges of the p e struction herein shown and described will be obut may e n a r to one of sa d s d d es than vious to those skilled in the art to which this ine Other, as w a P I S o e e Vention appertains, from the di c1 u h ei clearly hereinafter set forth. The other free edge,

given, 5, overlapped by said outermost free edge 4, ex- 45 To this end, my invention consists in the novel tends to t inner Surface of the other panel I construction, arrangement and combination of and is secured therealong to the latter so as to parts herein shown and described, and the uses form the partition Wall e d 5 is secured mentioned, as will be more clearly pointed outt0 e panel I at the Same distance o the adin th claims jacent side edge of the said panel, that the 00- 50 In the drawing, wherein like reference charop r in e e 4 is r i n r e f he acters indicate like or corresponding parts other panel The Width of the partition y throughout the views, preferably be slightly greater than that of the side Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bag, walls of the bag, so that when assembled, the

opened; bag may be opened or distended to substantially 55 the full width of the side walls of the bag entirely thereacross, and the partition wall will extend somewhat diagonally.

When packaging shoes or the like, it is quite desirable that the partition wall extend diagonally, inasmuch as this shape permits the bag to accommodate itself to the shape of the shoes, as the latter are wider across their soles than across their uppers.

This securement of the side edges of the partition wall is made while the sheet passes over the forming machinery from the roll of paper, in a continuous operation, the side walls of the bag being folded inwardly toward one another. In order to form the bags without Waste of material, the web is severed in such-a way that an extra length of material from one panel is removed adjacent the mouth portion of the bag and is added to said panel adjacent the bottom portion of the bag, and in this case the panel being so severed is thelower panel I. The bottom ends of the thus folded and pasted sheet are then folded transversely across the material of the bounding walls and partition wall and pasted or otherwise secure-d thereat to maintain the parts in said assembled relationship, with a permanent bottom closure. The bag bottom is reinforced by spacing the line of fold at said bottom, farther back from the adjacent terminating ends of the bag structure, and whereby this line of fold is transversely across all of the thicknesses of material.

Having thus described my invention, it is obvious that various immaterial modifications may be made in the same without departing from the spirit of my invention; hence I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact form, arrangement, construction and combina tion of parts herein shown and described, except as limited by the state of the art to which this invention appertains, and the claims hereunto appended.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bag formed of a pair of opposed panels, the bottom end of onev of which-projects longitudinally past the other, and side walls and a partition wall substantially coextensive in length and terminating substantially at the bottom end of said second panel, said entire bag formed of a single sheet of material, said sheet folded lengthwise. with :one longitudinal free edge secured to the exterior of and forming a part of one of said panels, and the other longitudinal free edge securedto theinside of the other panel, and said projecting end of said panel folded transversely upon the other panel to form the bottom closure of the bag.

2. A bagcomprising a pair of panels, side. walls connecting said panels, and a partition Wallacross said panels intermediate said side walls, all of. said walls and one of said panels being substantially coextensive in length, and the other panel projecting longitudinally past the same, said en-. the bag formed of a single sheet of material folded lengthwise with one longitudinal freeedge secured to the exterior of and forming apart of one of said panels, and the other longitudinal free edge secured to the inside of the other panel, and the said projecting panel portion folded transversely of itself together withthe other panel and side wall andpartitionstructure; onto the latter panel to form the bottom closure of the bag.

EDWARD SEBASTIAN. 

